Device for killing insects.



G. L. ORUVEIL DEVICE FOR KILLING INSECTS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 31, 1913.

Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

,==an 'improved device for killing insects. and

and adjacent parts are compressed to secure ,screen in the base. in place by reason of the pressure exerted thereon by the sides 6 and 9. ;noted that the barrels it) perform the double -CUBI'IS L. GRU'VER. 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DEVICE FOR KILLING INSECTS.

ipplication filed March 31.

Speeification of Letters Patent.

To aZZ whom it 222 (13 eon/3cm Be it known that I. Ctitris L. CRYVEH. a 1 citizen of the United States. residing at Chicago, in the county of Cool; and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and nseful Improvements in Devices for Killing lnsects. of Which the following a specificalifill.

The object of this in cention to produce particularl;- house fiics. such a device being popnlarl known as a tiv-sn'atter."

in the accompanying drawings. Figure 1 an elevation of a device embodying the features of mv invention. Figs. .2 and are enlarged sections on lines 2 and 3. respectively, of Fig. .1.

The device comprises a flexible member preferably formed of Wire screening. the; edges of which screening may. if desired. be bound with cloth .3 or other suitable material. The lower end of the flexible member 5 is Secured in a base T which comprises an integral piece of sheet metal fol-sled along its longitudinal median line to f rm two sides and 9. the side being longer than the side 8. The ends of side St rolled to form barrels 10 for the reception of arms on the handle. The handle ll preferably formed of ivire suitably shaped to provide two arms 12 which lie in the barrels; 10.. Preferably the ends S of the side and the edges of the screen 5 extend into or adjacent to the barrels l0. and the arms l3 bear against the said ends 8". The barrels 1O the arms 2 therein. and also to clamp the ends 8 against the binding 3 and the edges of the screen 5. so as to secnrelv fix said The screen is also held It will be function of securing the arms 12 to the base and of preventing the sides 8 and 9 of the base from spreading apart to release the flexible member 5.

G11 account of th tion, the device ma simplicit or" constrncbe manufactured. very the base I prori Eatented Sept. 1 5, 19.13. Serial No. 757,775.

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ir gift The face of laim my intention: 55 A li v swatter eompri ing" a flexible member. a set metal base naving two side portions be \vcen which one end of said member id. sa d bas havin; barrels at opposite e and a 1 le having a pair of arms extending into and rigidly elam ed in said barrels;

2. A H? :E'MHUQI comprising a flexible member, a sheet metal base having two sides between vwhich one end of said member lies, as and a handle having two arms, said base. having barrels at its ends to receive said arms, said barrels acting to secure the bandlc to .the base and further acting to clamp said flexible member to the base. 7

3. A. fly swatter comprising a flexible member. a sheet metal base having two sides her-ween which one end of said member lies, one of said sides being longer than the other and the former having barrels at its ends, a handle hating (W0 arms said edges of said flexible member and arms 35;

.- tightly to the base.

i A fir swatter comprising a sheet of wire screening. a bindin at the edges of screening. a sheet metal base folded to pro ride two sides between'which one end of said as screening lies. one or said sides being longer than the other and the former having integral barrels at its opposite ends, a wire handle having two arms lying in said barrels, said arms bearing against the ends of the 9:3 shorter side oisaid base. and said barrels and adjacent parts being compressed to clamp said arms and the edges of the said screening to securel all the parts co y gether. 35

5. A fig? swatter comprising a fiexihie' member, an integral sheet metal base proriding two sides between which one and til finding at an :1 m pposlte ends of; an

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